WASHINGTON — When Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, clashed over Syria last year with Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the secretary of state, he called her hysterical, the sort of impolitic ... Read more
UNITED NATIONS — Armed men broke into a United Nations outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria in the disputed Golan Heights region and abducted three military observers, the peacekeeping ... Read more
UNITED NATIONS — As the bloodletting continued unabated in Syria, the 193-member General Assembly passed a nonbinding resolution on Wednesday calling for a political transition to end the civil war there, ... Read more
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron survived a potentially humiliating challenge to his policies toward the European Union on Wednesday by a closer margin in Parliament than had been forecast, ... Read more
STOCKHOLM — President Bashar al-Assad’s government has given Russia the names of officials who would attend international talks intended to end the war in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said ... Read more
GENEVA — Navi Pillay, the top United Nations human rights official, called Friday for “much greater urgency” in efforts to end the conflict in Syria, saying massacres carried out in recent ... Read more
MOSCOW — Russia and the United States announced on Tuesday that they would seek to convene an international conference aimed at ending the civil war in Syria, jointly intensifying their diplomatic ... Read more
Four United Nations soldiers patrolling part of the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel were detained on Tuesday by Syrian insurgents, the second time in two months that members of the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The White House insisted on Monday that it would not be thrown off its cautious approach to Syria, despite Israeli military strikes near Damascus and new questions about the use of chemical ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The White House insisted Monday that it would not be thrown off its cautious approach to Syria, despite Israeli military strikes near Damascus and new questions about the use of chemical ... Read more